My children, following in my footsteps, have eschewed the mass-produced for the homemade. Perhaps growing up in an sb house has something to do with it, or...
Sarah, This photo reminds me of a song my mother used to sing to me at about the age of your boys, though I only remember one part. The words are to the effect...
Does anyone know about this? I was reading through a discussion concerning planting asparagus (from the Michigan State Ag. service). In this discussion they...
Hello Friends, Supporters and Customers of Massa Organics Rice! We don't normally send out press releases or broadcast emails, but we thought you might be...
I tried sending this out earlier today, but since I didn’t receive a message from SB-r-us, I doubt if anyone else did. My apologies if this is the second...
I wrote a post when I joined, but it might have disappeared. I am at the beginning of my housing adventure and am seriously interested in straw bale housing....
Hi, Sorry if this posts twice, the first attempt didn't seem to go thru. This isn't really a straw bale question, though I thought some of you might have come...
What is so "green" about concrete? You said "building" so I take it this is not yours and/or not a home? Personally, I'd look more toward an aerated concrete...
Jennifer, I am sure others will add quite a bit of detail. However, let me make some general comments in response to your questions. First, the cost. Much...
... The only ICF house I know of has problems with their stucco - it comes off too easily. The foam is soft, so knocks tend to crack the thin stucco (as the...
We needed to find a way to make our clay plaster adhere to blueboard (much like styrofoam), which was covering concrete corner posts on our strawbale house....
Thanks for the kind words, some of us work where we currently work because we are currently looking of something better. It is a home, with care taker unit...
Caralee, Interesting process, glad to here it worked out for you. Hope it didn't take to many days. The application in question is for a finish, not much...
... There seem to be widespread misconceptions about the intent, function and proper practise WRT to lath, and not just amongst novice owner/builders so Ron...
... I couldn't agree more with this statement. It is similar to people saying that earth plaster is superior in all situations. The context of the project...
Well, the process should work also for finish plaster. The trick is to get something stuck onto the styrofoam for the plaster to key into. Caralee ... From:...
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:20:16 -0400, peter van balen <peter@...> ... Ah yes. I got so carried away with the prospect of more sexy psocid images that I...
G ' day Jeff I agree with your post with regard to using a good key for the render to adhere to. I also o agree with what you have said about cracking under...
Actually that was my question also. From what I have read the productoin of concrete is a major polluter, creating one ton of CO2 for every ton of concrete....
It's pretty simple, really: If you can attach the "green" label to a building, that carries sufficient cachet to increase the potential market and salve the...
... Adam; I'm afraid I'd have to agree with the others who have made less-than- flattering comments about the supposed "Green"-ness of foamed plastic ICFs. ...
Rob et all, I guess nobody understood the parentheses around green as I intended. When one says "green" building it should have been interpreted as one in...
Hey, I understood what the quotation marks meant, but I didn't see any parentheses. Giant beer cozy, now that's good. David Gray [Non-text portions of this...
Oh, I messed up David. I meant quotation marks. Shouldn't right emails first thing in the morning To: SB-r-us@yahoogroups.com From: ndgray@... Date:...
Interesting discussion regarding what is green and what is not. The moment you apply a label to something there will be groups of people who co-opt it for...
LOL Reminds us of our neighbor who is 'environmentally conscious', was a 'green' builder, and built his own house out of SIP. Styrofoam is green???? However...
Chris wrote ... Of Course they are. If everyone simply did what they could we'd be along way to cleaning up this planet. What gets my goat is the energy...
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